Maryland 2022 National Champions

[jrn19]

Odd game at times but 2-3 more saves on our end and 2-3 less from Princeton and it's a blowout. Don't think Princeton ever got to within 2.

Pros
- Long had his best game. No one on Princeton's D could keep up with him, even when he wasn't outright beating his man his speed meant he was able to get a good pass off and draw attention on the D. Such a strong initiator from the wing
- Donville might wind up being only behind Logan as best transfer add under Tills. Just such a weapon. Can shoot, can dodge from the wing, invert and dodge from behind, stick stills from box are so good. You might have to put your 2nd best pole on him which means a teams 3rd/4th best pole is going to be on Khan or Malever, which they can weaponize.
- Wierman obviously had good match-up with Princeton down a couple FOGOs but he continues to look good and what a weapon in transition. 4 goals this year! Should have shot on that one he passed to the doorstep, he's got auto green light if he gets a look
- Thought defense played well all things considered. Shorties didn't get beat underneath in tight like we've seen a few times so far, active on the ground and forcing turnovers. Princeton has some guys who can make things happen on that offense and held em to 27% off. eff.
- Having 8 goal scorers in a game where it felt like lot of guys didn't play great is a show of strength

Cons
- I thought offense let Peters get in their heads too much. They were creating tons of great looks in the 1Q, he was just making saves. After that, until the 4Q, felt like they got antsy and took some bad shots. Forcing outside looks that weren't there, rushing things a bit. Needed to just stick at it. But got back to it in the 4Q and had some great looks
- I know it's heresy to criticize McNaney at times, but there's just 2-3 goals a game that he needs to stop and he's not doing it. Cuse game was good, and he is good out of the cage, but he's below 50% for the year now and he's got a defense in front of him that doesn't ask him to make a lot of tough stops. He's the only option, not saying bench him or anything, but he's gotta be better. The standard of goalie play at MD is just frankly higher than what he's bringing to the table. With Wierman being great at FOs it's the only weakness right now
- Wing play could have been better. Got better 2H, but 1H Princeton was grabbing some even when Wierman was winning clamp every time.

All in all, can't complain much about 5 goal W's. Haven't trailed yet this year. Onto ND.

Good game. Maryland looks good. FOGOs and senior middie out for Tigers didn’t help but Maryland is definitely a final four caliber team. Game far more competitive than 2015 and 2016 games. Donville definitely a difference maker. Good luck the rest of the way. Tillman has built quite the program.

Absolutely much more competitive than those two; Tigers much more athletic and physical than they were in those match-ups. Remember Maryland just physically imposing themselves on those PTon teams and PTon not having much response. Not the case here. Tigers have some real strong pieces on offense, if they can find a way to win match-ups without Sowers consistently and Peters has a strong year, def think you guys can be a big factor in the Ivy race

[Wheels]

One of the oddest games I can recall. Maryland out-shoots Princeton 50-23. They out-groundball Princeton 44-22. Princeton has 17 TOs to Maryland's 12. In most games, those kinds of stats would lead to a total blowout. But the game never felt like a blowout. Peters certainly had a hand in that.

Princeton was much more athletic than I thought they'd be. They pressed out a lot of Maryland and made them uncomfortable. Makar erased Brown, who scored on an EMO and off of a broken play where he picked up a GB and got to the goal.

Khan and Malever have had 2 combined assists over the last two games. Princeton today put the bigger-bodied Billings on Wisnauskas so they could put the more mobile Baughan and Finlay on Khan and Malever, respectively. Let's see how Benson adjusts to how teams are playing against Maryland's attack dodgers.

[AreaLax]

Post game press conference
https://youtu.be/Jl_zEgMNy1c

[Typical Lax Dad]

Post game press conference
https://youtu.be/Jl_zEgMNy1c

Coach Tillman noticed a lot of the players from 2020 are still at Princeton. Young team but a decent amount of experience.

[AreaLax]

Maryland/Virginia ticket sale General public onsale starts on Thu, Mar 3 @ 12:00 pm EST
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[AreaLax]

Tickets are on sale for Maryland/Virginia game via Ticketmaster $20 plus fees

[bananas]

Is Maryland at South Bend the game of the week?.

[AreaLax]

Joe Walters retires from pro lacrosse. Great video in the tweet

https://twitter.com/jwalters1/status/14 ... 40994?s=21

[keno in reno]

Any ideas on how to get ACCNX? Already have the Acc tv channel on fios but this streaming thing is a puzzle

[10stone5]

Download ESPN app to mobile or iPad.
That’ll let you get to ESPN+ menu.

Pick any ACCNx game on your mobile or iPad.

You may have to do a provider sign in, xFinity login
and password for me, then you may have to loop
through recommended games and related garbage,
but keep working it
and you’ll get your desired game.

I just download WatchESPN app to laptop.
We’ll have to see if ACCNX works from there.

[keno in reno]

Download ESPN app to mobile or iPad.
That’ll let you get to ESPN+ menu.

Pick any ACCNx game on your mobile or iPad.

You may have to do a provider sign in, xFinity login
and password for me, then you may have to loop
through recommended games and related garbage,
but keep working it
and you’ll get your desired game.

Thanks

[stanley848]

Download ESPN app to mobile or iPad.
That’ll let you get to ESPN+ menu.

Pick any ACCNx game on your mobile or iPad.

You may have to do a provider sign in, xFinity login
and password for me, then you may have to loop
through recommended games and related garbage,
but keep working it
and you’ll get your desired game.

Thanks

If your tv or cable subscription includes ESPN, then you can stream ACCNX thru ESPN app. The separate subscription to ESPN+ isn’t needed.

Sign into ESPN with your TV provider. Select the watch tab, then Featured. Scroll down and you’ll see Lacrosse - Live & Upcoming. MD at ND starts 2:00pm Eastern Time.

Greetings from sunny South Bend Indiana. On the way to Notre Dame.

[stanley848]

Maryland/Virginia ticket sale General public onsale starts on Thu, Mar 3 @ 12:00 pm EST
https://www.ticketmaster.com/capitol-cl ... 5CF9745394

Any idea what section Terps fans are sitting? Would really suck to be surrounded by UVA people

[jrn19]

Good win. Hate losing to ND so the W was priority #1

Pros
- Makar UD win over Kav. Guess he can cover a teams #1 attackmen after all.
- Defensive midfielders were tremendous, think ND won a match-up on a d mid...once? Walker scored on Fairman but Fairman made him can a contested shot. Overall ND spent a lot of time spinning the ball around the perimeter and the Kavanaghs tried to force stuff inside which was snuffed out
- The Return of the Mac! Awesome game by Logan. Starts seem to be big for him. When he sees a few go in he seems to struggle a bit, but when he gets in a groove he plays so confident. Couple big saves at key moments esp to make sure Irish never got too close.
- Loved the move to invert Long behind the cage 2H. Notre Dame covering him with a shortie was asking for trouble and he punished them. The better he plays, the better this offense is, because he's the best primary initiator they have.
- Wierman 18-2 after 1Q. I expected him to have success but that was dominant. ND isn't great on FOs but if he is going to be a guy who is dominant vs subpar to avg FO play and can hang with the top guns, that's huge.
- Lot of good looks as usual on offense. Just gotta can em.
- 2nd MF is so good. Best 2nd MF we've had in Tills' time here. They play so confident and so aggresively; Murphy is such a good dodger and Brennan plays like a starter, he goes to the goal and gets his shots off. Nice for Koras to get a goal too.

Cons
- Khan will be a good player for us and a strong contributor, but it's not happening right now. Ball is just dying in his stick, not picking his head up, he's just in a rut. To his credit, awesome play to get that GB to Malever for the 10-8 goal. But I would move Murphy down to attack to keep the dodging threat up and have KK run 2nd MF with Brennan and Koras. Maybe inverting on some shorties as opposed to a pole will help him
- As good as Makar is as a shut down D, he's gotta get better with his outlet passes and on the clear. Some tough TOs leading to failed clears for him this year
- Clearing in general gotta get better. Bubba is a horse, just give it to him and let him punt return that. Needs to be less passing between poles and Logan and more one guy taking it and running it across. Being onsides isn't the clearer's responsibility, it's everyone else
- There's going to be more TOs without Jared bc there isn't the option to just have him run past someone when it's late in the possession. But overall things haven't been crisp enough so far this year. Gotta iron it out, and I'm sure they will

Getting through this stretch 5-0 is no small feat. No true gimme W here and the last two weeks they played premium opposition. Only trailed for like 4-5 mins this year. Only gimme W of the year is up next week, good game to get right, get everyone feeling confident, and then prepare for UVA.

[AreaLax]

Maryland/Virginia ticket sale General public onsale starts on Thu, Mar 3 @ 12:00 pm EST
https://www.ticketmaster.com/capitol-cl ... 5CF9745394

Any idea what section Terps fans are sitting? Would really suck to be surrounded by UVA people

No. Wish I did.

[stupefied]

Good win. Hate losing to ND so the W was priority #1

Pros
- Makar UD win over Kav. Guess he can cover a teams #1 attackmen after all.
- Defensive midfielders were tremendous, think ND won a match-up on a d mid...once? Walker scored on Fairman but Fairman made him can a contested shot. Overall ND spent a lot of time spinning the ball around the perimeter and the Kavanaghs tried to force stuff inside which was snuffed out
- The Return of the Mac! Awesome game by Logan. Starts seem to be big for him. When he sees a few go in he seems to struggle a bit, but when he gets in a groove he plays so confident. Couple big saves at key moments esp to make sure Irish never got too close.
- Loved the move to invert Long behind the cage 2H. Notre Dame covering him with a shortie was asking for trouble and he punished them. The better he plays, the better this offense is, because he's the best primary initiator they have.
- Wierman 18-2 after 1Q. I expected him to have success but that was dominant. ND isn't great on FOs but if he is going to be a guy who is dominant vs subpar to avg FO play and can hang with the top guns, that's huge.
- Lot of good looks as usual on offense. Just gotta can em.
- 2nd MF is so good. Best 2nd MF we've had in Tills' time here. They play so confident and so aggresively; Murphy is such a good dodger and Brennan plays like a starter, he goes to the goal and gets his shots off. Nice for Koras to get a goal too.

Cons
- Khan will be a good player for us and a strong contributor, but it's not happening right now. Ball is just dying in his stick, not picking his head up, he's just in a rut. To his credit, awesome play to get that GB to Malever for the 10-8 goal. But I would move Murphy down to attack to keep the dodging threat up and have KK run 2nd MF with Brennan and Koras. Maybe inverting on some shorties as opposed to a pole will help him
- As good as Makar is as a shut down D, he's gotta get better with his outlet passes and on the clear. Some tough TOs leading to failed clears for him this year
- Clearing in general gotta get better. Bubba is a horse, just give it to him and let him punt return that. Needs to be less passing between poles and Logan and more one guy taking it and running it across. Being onsides isn't the clearer's responsibility, it's everyone else
- There's going to be more TOs without Jared bc there isn't the option to just have him run past someone when it's late in the possession. But overall things haven't been crisp enough so far this year. Gotta iron it out, and I'm sure they will

Getting through this stretch 5-0 is no small feat. No true gimme W here and the last two weeks they played premium opposition. Only trailed for like 4-5 mins this year. Only gimme W of the year is up next week, good game to get right, get everyone feeling confident, and then prepare for UVA.

18-24 on faceoffs main determinant, reverse and flip scores nm

[jrn19]

Good win. Hate losing to ND so the W was priority #1

Pros
- Makar UD win over Kav. Guess he can cover a teams #1 attackmen after all.
- Defensive midfielders were tremendous, think ND won a match-up on a d mid...once? Walker scored on Fairman but Fairman made him can a contested shot. Overall ND spent a lot of time spinning the ball around the perimeter and the Kavanaghs tried to force stuff inside which was snuffed out
- The Return of the Mac! Awesome game by Logan. Starts seem to be big for him. When he sees a few go in he seems to struggle a bit, but when he gets in a groove he plays so confident. Couple big saves at key moments esp to make sure Irish never got too close.
- Loved the move to invert Long behind the cage 2H. Notre Dame covering him with a shortie was asking for trouble and he punished them. The better he plays, the better this offense is, because he's the best primary initiator they have.
- Wierman 18-2 after 1Q. I expected him to have success but that was dominant. ND isn't great on FOs but if he is going to be a guy who is dominant vs subpar to avg FO play and can hang with the top guns, that's huge.
- Lot of good looks as usual on offense. Just gotta can em.
- 2nd MF is so good. Best 2nd MF we've had in Tills' time here. They play so confident and so aggresively; Murphy is such a good dodger and Brennan plays like a starter, he goes to the goal and gets his shots off. Nice for Koras to get a goal too.

Cons
- Khan will be a good player for us and a strong contributor, but it's not happening right now. Ball is just dying in his stick, not picking his head up, he's just in a rut. To his credit, awesome play to get that GB to Malever for the 10-8 goal. But I would move Murphy down to attack to keep the dodging threat up and have KK run 2nd MF with Brennan and Koras. Maybe inverting on some shorties as opposed to a pole will help him
- As good as Makar is as a shut down D, he's gotta get better with his outlet passes and on the clear. Some tough TOs leading to failed clears for him this year
- Clearing in general gotta get better. Bubba is a horse, just give it to him and let him punt return that. Needs to be less passing between poles and Logan and more one guy taking it and running it across. Being onsides isn't the clearer's responsibility, it's everyone else
- There's going to be more TOs without Jared bc there isn't the option to just have him run past someone when it's late in the possession. But overall things haven't been crisp enough so far this year. Gotta iron it out, and I'm sure they will

Getting through this stretch 5-0 is no small feat. No true gimme W here and the last two weeks they played premium opposition. Only trailed for like 4-5 mins this year. Only gimme W of the year is up next week, good game to get right, get everyone feeling confident, and then prepare for UVA.

18-24 on faceoffs main determinant, reverse and flip scores nm

Maybe, FO adv wasn’t hugely beneficial to MD. Both defenses played great and lot of turnovers, goals were also mostly spread apart aside from early 3Q where Maryland did ride the FO adv a lot. Otherwise defensive game, Maryland was slightly more efficient offensively but both teams in the mid-20’s off efficiency

[AreaLax]

I would flip Khan and Long

[Essexfenwick]

Nothing from Donville
Very little from Wisnauskas
Nothing from Khan

The 2nd midfield came up huge. The depth is impressive

[Wheels]

Good win. Hate losing to ND so the W was priority #1

Pros
- Makar UD win over Kav. Guess he can cover a teams #1 attackmen after all.
- Defensive midfielders were tremendous, think ND won a match-up on a d mid...once? Walker scored on Fairman but Fairman made him can a contested shot. Overall ND spent a lot of time spinning the ball around the perimeter and the Kavanaghs tried to force stuff inside which was snuffed out
- The Return of the Mac! Awesome game by Logan. Starts seem to be big for him. When he sees a few go in he seems to struggle a bit, but when he gets in a groove he plays so confident. Couple big saves at key moments esp to make sure Irish never got too close.
- Loved the move to invert Long behind the cage 2H. Notre Dame covering him with a shortie was asking for trouble and he punished them. The better he plays, the better this offense is, because he's the best primary initiator they have.
- Wierman 18-2 after 1Q. I expected him to have success but that was dominant. ND isn't great on FOs but if he is going to be a guy who is dominant vs subpar to avg FO play and can hang with the top guns, that's huge.
- Lot of good looks as usual on offense. Just gotta can em.
- 2nd MF is so good. Best 2nd MF we've had in Tills' time here. They play so confident and so aggresively; Murphy is such a good dodger and Brennan plays like a starter, he goes to the goal and gets his shots off. Nice for Koras to get a goal too.

Cons
- Khan will be a good player for us and a strong contributor, but it's not happening right now. Ball is just dying in his stick, not picking his head up, he's just in a rut. To his credit, awesome play to get that GB to Malever for the 10-8 goal. But I would move Murphy down to attack to keep the dodging threat up and have KK run 2nd MF with Brennan and Koras. Maybe inverting on some shorties as opposed to a pole will help him
- As good as Makar is as a shut down D, he's gotta get better with his outlet passes and on the clear. Some tough TOs leading to failed clears for him this year
- Clearing in general gotta get better. Bubba is a horse, just give it to him and let him punt return that. Needs to be less passing between poles and Logan and more one guy taking it and running it across. Being onsides isn't the clearer's responsibility, it's everyone else
- There's going to be more TOs without Jared bc there isn't the option to just have him run past someone when it's late in the possession. But overall things haven't been crisp enough so far this year. Gotta iron it out, and I'm sure they will

Getting through this stretch 5-0 is no small feat. No true gimme W here and the last two weeks they played premium opposition. Only trailed for like 4-5 mins this year. Only gimme W of the year is up next week, good game to get right, get everyone feeling confident, and then prepare for UVA.

You are GD right about the rope unit. Through 3 quarters, Jackaboice, Dobson, and Mirer had 1 assist, 7 shots, and 6 turnovers. Chris Kavanagh will be just as good as his brothers, but his last two weeks show him what it's like to play against legit defenses. You have to love how the Kavanaghs ride, though. They never give up, and it's really fun to watch them.

In the post-game presser, Tills talked about having to go to the invert a lot sooner than they had planned. You could see that was a point of emphasis in the 2H. You are so right about the second midfield line. Murphy has brought some swagger to the line, but having Koras and Brennan take dedicated defensive runs has really helped those guys' confidence, too. In past years, the 2nd MF line would maybe have 1 guy looking to attack while the others looked happy to just transfer the ball around. Not this group. All 3 look to attack at all times. There is no difference in the offense when the 2nd line comes in.

This game was set up for a MD loss. Coming back to Arlotta after ending ND's season in OT last year. ND coming off of a bad loss to Georgetown wanting to show they weren't that bad. Gritty win for the Terps. McNaney, Wierman, and the rope unit kept them in the game in the first half until the offense could finally get doing in Q2 and Q3.

Let's hope some of the 3rd line guys and 2nd attack unit can get some run next week.